I've got a solution in place where I have two HP Proliant servers with 8 ports each installed. I have an iSCSI backend to for the data store. I've got the network configured the best way I can glean ...

I’ve been banging my head over what seems to be a problem but not sure if it really is. Okay, this is about VLAN trunking and our VMware environment – hope I can articulate this well. What we are ...

Another thing to consider: In my configuration I have enabled VLAN encapsulated trunking on the fiber ports between switches. This is the best way I have found to deal with a multi-switch, multi-VLAN ...

It's no surprise that Linux makes a great router and firewall. A lesser-known fact is that you also can use Linux as an Ethernet bridge and VLAN switch, and that these features are similarly powerful, ...